In light of Mr. Bolla's statements that were directed toward meteorologists, there exists issues that need to be addressed for those who are fellow ignorant meteorologist bashers. To begin, I quote Robert T. Ryan: "Imagine a system on a rotating sphere that is 8,000 miles wide, consists of different materials, different gases that have different properties (one of the most important of which, water, exists in different concentrations), heated by a nuclear reactor 93 million miles away. Then, just to make life interesting, this sphere is oriented such that, as it revolves around the nuclear reactor, it is heated differently at different locations at different times of the year. Then, someone is asked to watch the mixture of gases, a fluid only 20 miles deep, that covers an area of 250 million square miles, and to predict the state of that fluid at one point on the sphere two days from now. This is the problem weather forecasters face."

The above quote illustrates how tricky and how much understanding of the world itself is needed to make forecasts that so many rely on everyday. Why is it that so much of the public only makes note of the times the meteorologists are "wrong?" In reality, the times we are correct dwarf the amount of times we are wrong. Every year, meteorologists save countless of lives whether it be issuing storm warnings to forecasting the weather for airports across the world. The point is that even though weather forecasting is done on a round-the-clock basis, there is a great deal of understanding involved. Why do people turn to the news for the weather? They want the advice of someone who knows.